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Home » US Law » 2022 Maryland Statutes » Commercial Law » Title 7 - Documents of Title » Subtitle 2 - Warehouse Receipts; Special Provisions

Section 7-201 – Who May Issue a Warehouse Receipt; Storage Under Government Bond

    (a)    A warehouse receipt may be issued by any warehouse.     (b)    If goods, including distilled spirits and agricultural commodities, are stored under a statute requiring a bond against withdrawal or a license for the issuance of receipts in the nature of warehouse receipts, a receipt issued for the goods is deemed to be a warehouse receipt even […]

Section 7-202 – Form of Warehouse Receipt; Essential Terms; Optional Terms

    (a)    A warehouse receipt need not be in any particular form.     (b)    Unless a warehouse receipt provides for each of the following, the warehouse is liable for damages caused to a person injured by its omission:         (1)    A statement of the location of the warehouse facility where the goods are stored;         (2)    The date of issue of the receipt; […]

Section 7-203 – Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription

    A party to or purchaser for value in good faith of a document of title, other than a bill of lading, that relies upon the description of the goods in the document may recover from the issuer damages caused by the nonreceipt or misdescription of the goods, except to the extent that:         (1)    The document conspicuously […]

Section 7-204 – Duty of Care; Contractual Limitation of Liability of Warehouse

    (a)    A warehouse is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by its failure to exercise care with regard to the goods that a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise agreed, the warehouse is not liable for damages that could not have been avoided by the exercise […]

Section 7-206 – Termination of Storage at Option of Warehouse

    (a)    A warehouse, by giving notice to the person on whose account the goods are held and any other person known to claim an interest in the goods, may require payment of any charges and removal of the goods from the warehouse at the termination of the period of storage fixed by the document of title […]

Section 7-207 – Goods Must Be Kept Separate; Fungible Goods

    (a)    Unless the warehouse receipt provides otherwise, a warehouse shall keep separate the goods covered by each receipt so as to permit at all times identification and delivery of those goods. However, different lots of fungible goods may be commingled.     (b)    If different lots of fungible goods are commingled, the goods are owned in common by the […]

Section 7-208 – Altered Warehouse Receipts

    If a blank in a negotiable tangible warehouse receipt has been filled in without authority, a good-faith purchaser for value and without notice of the lack of authority may treat the insertion as authorized. Any other unauthorized alteration leaves any tangible or electronic warehouse receipt enforceable against the issuer according to its original tenor.

Section 7-209 – Lien of Warehouse

    (a)    A warehouse has a lien against the bailor on the goods covered by a warehouse receipt or storage agreement or on the proceeds thereof in its possession for charges for storage or transportation, including demurrage and terminal charges, insurance, labor, or other charges, present or future, in relation to the goods, and for expenses necessary […]

Section 7-210 – Enforcement of Warehouse Lien

    (a)    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a warehouse’s lien may be enforced by public or private sale of the goods, in bulk or in packages, at any time or place and on any terms that are commercially reasonable, after notifying all persons known to claim an interest in the goods. The notification must include […]